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AIBU noisy yappy whiney dog next door

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Brighteyes27 · 17/09/2017 22:41

Our neighbours have just got another dog. It is a very noisy yappy and whiney and our walls are so thin 1930's semi we can hear it above our tv. AIBU to be a bit peed off. They already have another dog which they are forever shouting at, at full volume it's rarely walked and they both work full time so it's left for hours on end.
We also have a dog and I work part time and when I am working a long day we have a dog walker who comes to walk him for a good couple of hours as he goes out with a few other dogs, he also doesn't bark so doesn't disturb anyone. Neighbours new dog/pup is disrupting my daughter from getting to sleep and we can hear it in our living room on an evening when trying to relax their is barely no let up. We have just looked up the breed and they need a lot of exercise and can be very whiney, anxious, have separation anxiety and can be neurotic etc. I don't want to out myself but it is an unusual dog breed of the pointer variety. Any tips or suggestions.

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TrustingTrudie · 17/09/2017 22:47

I don't know what the answer is but why is it barking when the owners are home of an evening?
Are you friendly enoUgh with the neighbours to chat about this?

Brighteyes27 · 17/09/2017 22:52

Goodness knows it's just a puppy but doesn't bode well. About 5 years ago they had a similar dog they went out a lot on an evening and the noise in our house was torturous. One night it jumped out of an upstairs bedroom window. We say hello to neighbours but she is very sullen and barely looks up. He is noisy always shouting at wife, kids and dogs. We say hello but that's about it.

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Brighteyes27 · 18/09/2017 08:53

We heard the dog constantly all night last night while trying to watch TV. Then when we went to bed it was still going strong. Finally I got to sleep then heard it again at 5am!! It eventually quietened down either that or I was so tired I slept through it (missed my alarm clock) and it's going again now on my day off and will likely be going all day! Would I be unreasonable to put a list of dog walkers and dog trainers through the door.

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TrustingTrudie · 18/09/2017 10:18

That sounds awful, I would knock now had it been going on this long

LexieLulu · 18/09/2017 10:23

Got to be honest, I crapped myself when I started reading this.

We've recently adopted a 1 year old dog, and the whinging noise it makes even drives us crazy

SistersOfPercy · 18/09/2017 11:18

I've lived with this for about ten years. I get on well with NDN, she's a single older lady who works. From the moment she walks out of the door until the moment she returns the dog barks. She works shifts (fortunately no nights) so some days it can be going from 2pm to 10.30pm or 7am to 3pm for example.

When it first started she did make attempt to deal with it. She started to keep him in one room so at least he wasn't charging around the house barking, she tried the calming sprays, leaving on the radio etc. None of it worked and slowly she kind of gave up and we resigned to live with it.

It does have some advantage, I know when she's at work so can ramp up the music but I do miss being able to sit in total silence and read etc

We're looking to move next year. It will be a detached.

LexieLulu · 18/09/2017 12:56

Out dog only gets whinges when you first come home or go downstairs in the morning... until you take her for a walk.

I was so worried she did it all day so I set up CCTV. Thankfully she doesn't.

Drives my husband mad tho. The whiney noise is awful x

specialsubject · 18/09/2017 14:20

Why people like this get dogs , let alone more dogs, is beyond me.

Begin with polite request, when it is ignored ( because they are clearly stupid) get on to the council and begin the process. You have nothing to lose as there will be years of this.

WhatALoadOfOldBollocks · 18/09/2017 14:53

I think you'd be better off talking to them rather than posting something through their letter box. That way you will be able to gauge their reaction and hear any suggestions they make about how they plan to deal with it (if they give a shit that is). Keep a diary of each time the dogs bark and whine, how long they're left alone, and if there isn't significant improvement within a certain time frame get the council (or whoever deals with noise nuisance issues) involved.

StormTreader · 18/09/2017 15:03

Its not a Weimerainer, is it? My old neighbours bought one of those and the noise when they went out just did...not...stop until he came back. It could do three hours plus of constant barking easily. It only stopped when he got repossessed and had to move out, I had a year+ on the council "noise complaint response team" list who were utterly useless.

GirlOnATrainToShite · 18/09/2017 15:04

I feel your pain my NDN have a small dog which is left alone all day and barks constantly it's awful.

They have been there a year. Sad

Brighteyes27 · 18/09/2017 15:20

This is early days with a new puppy they have another dog about a year or two old which is actually ok but a few years ago their old dog was a Weimerainer. We had just got our two kids to sleep at say 7.30 when their whole family would beggar off to a BBQ leaving the Weimerainer alone going mental. Poor thing would go mental in every room in the house. I just wanted silence after along day when the kids were babies and toddlers but never got any. They left the upstairs windows open so the noise was even worse and so one day it jumped out of a bedroom window.

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Brighteyes27 · 18/09/2017 16:15

He's on 6-2 today wife never home until after 6. Just saw him asked him how it was going as he was cleaning its crate in front Garden. He said ok but it's just done a poo in crate in car on way to vets. So it's going mad now as in the other dogs crate at minute. I said yes I can hear it. We got x (a dog training person) round when ours was a puppy and they gave us some really good training tips which we found really helpful. Ours used to get car sick every time he went in the car then he got used to going out in the dog walkers car when I was at work with the other dogs which really seemed to help him and now he loves going in the car now and is never sick or has accidents. I don't think it went down too well but really wish we could move.

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